The development of African drama by Etherton Michael 1939-

Author:Etherton, Michael, 1939-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: African drama (English), Theater
Publisher: New York : Africana Pub. Co.
Published: 1982-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

a play about an historical moment, Independence, rather than a

play about a concept: freedom, independence.

Notes and references

1 I have not dealt with the francophone African plays (see the Introduction) nor have I listed more than those mentioned in the text in the bibliography. Francophone studies of African drama quite naturally concentrate on francophone texts.

See Bakary Traore, Le thmtre Negro-Africain et ses fonc-tions sociales (Paris: Presence Africaine 1958). This is translated into English by Dapo Adelugba, The Black African Theatre and its social functions (Ibadan: Ibadan University Press 1972). Robert Cornevin, Le theatre en Afrique noire et a Madagascar (Paris: Le livre Africain 1970). Clive Wake has a short but useful chapter, in English, on theatre in the francophone African states in Martin Banham, African Theatre Today (London: Pitman 1976). There is also a collection of papers, Actes du Colloque sur le theatre negro-africain (Paris: Presence Africaine 1971).

2 For relevant historical studies of Benin during this period see: Alan Ryder, Benin and the Europeans 1485-1897 (London: Longman 1969, paperback 1977), especially Chapter 7; Philip Aigbona Igbafe, Benin under British Administration (London: Longman 1979), especially chapters 1 and 2.

3 Ola Rotimi, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (Ibadan: Oxford University Press 1974), p. 79.

4 ibid., p. 60.

5 ibid., p. 34.

6 ibid., pp. 35-6.

7 ibid., p. 37.

8 ibid., p. 16.

9 ibid.,p. 20.

10 ibid., p. 23.

11 ibid., p. 31.

12 ibid.,p. 36.

13 ibid., p. 53-4.

14 ibid., p. 67.

15 ibid., p. 79.

16 An account from the colonial records of the Maji-Maji Uprising is given in W. O. Henderson, ‘German East Africa,

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